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Im sorry but couple of things really annoyed me (spoilers)

posted 11 years ago by mustsilm
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1.
Why is the dog allowed to stay in the train station park? Ok at first the owner always comes back, but later, when the owner is dead? This is 2009 not 1920 or smth. Dont tell me its because the animal shelter is full.

Like i said its a movie, based on some 1920s story but thats the thing here, are dogs really left wandering around in the streets of America? I dont think this happens in real life? (Im not from america thats why ask).

2.
You start to think the owner is quite lazy and the dog has been raised badly. Again, going back to the train station thing, what kind of normal man does that in real life and is let to do, leaving the dog out there for hours, you never know, we dont see it, but there could be a heavy storm day for example? See at the beginning when there is a storm and man takes the dog to house. Now he leaves him for up to 7-8 hours in the streets, anything can happen.

One thing what especially bothers me, is that this is 2009, even if he hadnt died, there was always the chance he wouldnt come straight home. I just dont get this, obviously there would be times he would come later, not 17:05 which in self is rather illogical cause he ends work 17 and his already in the station and 17:05? Why doesnt he drive a car if the distance is so short. Again such a flaw in this movie story. But like i said, there could always be a day, say a friend calls or smth, come over after work or lets meet in this local pub or smth. So the dog would have stayed on longer in the station.

The whole leaving home ground/garden is also terrible, dog is taken usually for that purpose, who then watches the home? I know its not a watchdog but that is the main reason for a dog to be taken.

3.
When the man dies and wife leaves house, the daughter takes the dog, but then lets it just go "look for himself". What pisses me off is that later in the movie, when the daughter has a kid, and is a bit older already, they show him the pics of the dog and talk about him like u know a family member, u know, this dog is part of our family and all that, after about 10 years. Yet the dog has lived alone for years and is alive partly only because the guy who sells hot dogs just happens to be there. I just dont get this, seems really flawed. I understand the storytellers tried to push on the relationship between Richard Gere character and the dog but this is ridiculous. The dog only lives because some hot dog seller happens to be there.

4.
And that brings me to next point, years go by, its like 10 years i see, when the dog is old and the husband comes back to town to relive some memories or so, and dog is still there and the hot dog man is also there....give me a break, the hot dog seller already looked in his 60s at the beginning. Isnt he supposed to retire by 70 or smth? Ridiculous imo. Or at least get a new seller there.

So like i said, i understand the old story and stuff but thats the issue here, it would have worked in that time period movie maybe, but they made american story and despite some good parts you know, the humanity and the relationship between dog and owner its just a very flawed story.

[–] Tijmehhh 11 years ago

answer to your first question :
he's allowed to stay there because he's well known at the train station, they even made an artical about him in the newspaper. now to the part where you say: it's 2009 not 1920.... don't look to much on the time period? because they are trying to tell a story that took place in 1920.

point 2:
to start with: how is that bad raising? if you see your dog wants to do evreything to walk with you to the station i think you let him don't you? it's nice to have some company if you're walking to the train. then, you're saying he's staying for 7-8 hours on the Streets wich is NOT true since he's going back home straight away after his boss is out of sight. he's coming back to the train station at the arival time since he was smart enough to figure out when the boss came back. there's actually a scene where the owner asks if he were sitting there all day. the answer was : no he just came.

then if he would get called for a meeting or something, he simply could call his wife to pick up the dog.

than why doesn't he drive a car? that's like why are you going to school with the buss, train, bike, car ? it's what you prefer.

then buying a dog just to protect your house is really terrible. what's the chance people break into your house? and after all he didn't get the dog, he found him and kept him as a friend not some stupid guard for the house.

point 3:
hachi was part of the family but he choose to go to the train station HIMSELF. he kept walking away and didn't want to return home so they let him go. also he's not just alive because of some hotdogseller happend to be there. the real story tells you he was able to survive because the people who knew him from the trainstation gave him food and took care of him when he was injured.

point 4:
if the hotdog seller LOOKED like he was 60 it doesn't have to be that way? they was no clue to figure out his age so there is no reason to say he had to be retired at that moment.

the last thing i ask myself is if you really understand the true story and what really happend. this movie was made to show the real story exept for the fact it took place in japan 1920 and not america a later time period. if they wanted to show you a dog-man relationship and did cut out all the things you say are ''flawed'' or ''illogical'' how can they say it's based on a true story ? because simply those things really happened.

(i'm from Holland so english is not my native language, so sorry for the bad grammer etc) but anyway this are my toughts about your post.